Admittedly, of these three, only Jenna was born and grew up in Northern Ireland.

Aimee was born and reared in England to a Northern Irish family. They moved to America when Aimee was 12, which is where she took up snowboarding. But, they returned home to Northern Ireland when Aimee was 16.

Florence was born in England and has lived her whole life over there. Her Dad is from Tandragee, but went over to England to go to University, and stayed. Her older sister, Victoria ( http://victoriabell.co.uk ), is also an Alpine skier.

As I have mentioned quite a few times, people in Northern Ireland are automatically entitled to dual British and Irish nationality. So, our sportspeople can represent either country.

Jenna and Aimee have competed for Great Britain their whole career.

Florence (and Victoria, for that matter) used to compete for Great Britain, but switched to Ireland a few years ago. Flo was the only competitor representing Ireland at the 2012 Youth Olympics.

Like Jenna, Kelly was born and reared over here. She is competing in the B3 partially sighted class, and her guide is Charlotte Evans, who is from Kent in England. As she is literally Kelly's eyes, it would be churlish not to include her in this discussion. So, here is a photo of them together.

In 2010, Kelly became the first person from Northern Ireland to compete in a Winter Paralympics.

During the Olympics, I will try to keep you up-to-date with how all the Northern Irish girls are getting on through this thread.

I realise that this will not be of much interest to most users of this forum. But, for a country as small as mine (and where winter sports are not a big thing), having this many entries at a Winter Olympics is a big achievement!

Apologies that I have been neglecting this thread a bit, but there has been that much going on elsewhere in the Olympics that I never had a chance to update you all on the Northern Irish girls.

Not that there has been a lot to update you on! The 9th February, when Aimee was doing her Slopestyle Semi and Jenna was doing the Team Ladies FS, was actually the last time any of them were in action!

But not anymore! Florence will kick-start her Olympics today, while Jenna will have her Individual Ladies SP tomorrow.

I don't know why, but there has been a change to the schedule to the Alpine Skiing. Each run of the Giant Slalom is starting 1h 30m earlier than originally planned.

So, the first run is now starting at 05:30 GMT (instead of 07:00 GMT), with the second run now starting at 09:00 GMT (instead of 10:30 GMT)

Florence (in the green of Ireland) will start with bib 75.

GOOD LUCK FLORENCE!!!!!!

Anyway, it all kicks off in a few minutes. And the BBC will be showing it LIVE on BOTH the website and TV!!!

The final event which will have Ulster representation is the Slalom, which starts in about 25 minutes.

Unfortunately, Tandragee's Florence Bell did not finish the First Run of the Giant Slalom on Wednesday (she was going far too hard in very iffy conditions, and ended up shooting through the air off the course when she should have been going through a gate!)

But, she will get a chance to redeem herself today, when she will be starting the Slalom with bib 73.

Here are the details of the BBC coverage:

Originally Posted by CaroLiza_fan

the BBC will be showing it LIVE on BOTH the website and TV!!!

The First Run will be on BBCi1 from 12:40 - 14:00 GMT, and on this Livestreaming link from 12:25 GMT:

As with the BBC coverage of the Olympics, the coverage of the Paralympics is being spread out between the normal TV channels and online streaming. Most of the TV coverage will be on Channel 4 itself, with coverage on More4 when Ch4 are showing other stuff. There will also be 2 streams on the Channel 4 website.

And, looking at the way the coverage is in 3 or 4 hour blocks in the schedules, it looks as if working out what is going to be shown where is going to be as confusing as it was with the BBC coverage of the Olympics!

Astra 28.2E, Transponder 41 (10.714H. MBaud 22,000. FEC 5/6).NOTE: There are 6 regional variations of Channel 4 on this frequency. But, it doesn't matter which one you watch - the only difference is the adverts!

I didn’t realise it, but Kelly Gallagher is taking in ALL the Visually Impaired Alpine Skiing events. So, it’s going to be a busy week for her!

Returning to the Olympics, and I apologise for not posting comments on performances of the Northern Irish girls in this thread as we went along, as was my intention. What actually happened was that I commented in the dedicated threads instead.

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Astra 28.2E, Transponder 41 (10.714H. MBaud 22,000. FEC 5/6).NOTE: There are 6 regional variations of Channel 4 on this frequency. But, it doesn't matter which one you watch - the only difference is the adverts!

I don't know what happened, but an Australian appeared on the starting list since I looked at it yesterday. So, Kelly was actually the penultimate starter rather than the final starter.

But it was not a good result for Kelly, I'm afraid. She finished 6th... and last.

The other way of looking at it is that Kelly was second in her degree of vision class (B3). The other entry in her class, Slovakia's Henrieta FARKASOVA (who was the first starter), won the Gold Medal.

The other Team GB entrant, England's Jade ETHERINGTON, won the Silver Medal in her first Paralympics. However, after she crossed the line, Jade had a heavy crash into the barriers. We didn't get to see her getting up, but the guys in the studio said she was alright.

After the Standing Race, Channel 4 showed an interview with Jade, and she was fine and extremely excitable! So, no harm done!

And she had good reason to be happy. That Silver was Great Britain's:

first medal in Alpine Skiing;
first women's individual medal since 1984;
and first individual medal since 1994

The Bronze Medal is staying in Russia, having been won by Aleksandra FRANTCEVA.

And, can I just say: I thought it was lovely that the oldest entrant, 42-year-old American Danelle UMSTEAD, was being guided by her husband!